Racial disparity in waitlisting prevents many Americans from getting the kidney transplants they need. Healthcare providers at dialysis facilities play an important role in kidney transplant waitlisting, but very little is...

Optimizing wellness and health are the most critical goals for patients post solid-organ transplantation. Low health literacy has important implications for wellness and health, increasing patient risk for negative health outcomes....

The clinical significance of apoptosis in assessing the quality of donor liver grafts remains unknown. This study aimed to determine whether apoptosis in a donor liver is predictive of early allograft dysfunction and graft survival after liver transplantation.

The opioid abuse epidemic and the deaths of otherwise healthy individuals due to drug overdose in the United States has major implications for transplantation. The current extent and safety of utilization of liver and kidney...

Bariatric surgery is effective in treating morbid obesity but the impact of prior BS on candidacy for liver transplantation is unclear. We examined 78 cirrhotic patients with prior BS compared with a concurrent cohort of 156 patients...

There's a serious kidney shortage in the U.S.
According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a federal database on organ transplantation, there are nearly 100,000 Americans currently on the waitlist for a kidney....

Kidneys obtained from deceased donors for transplantation are a scarce and valuable resource, yet 20 percent of kidneys are discarded – most commonly due to findings noted on biopsies taken when the kidney is procured...

Accepting an organ that has an increased risk of potentially transmitting disease offers a higher one-year survival rate for candidates on the heart transplant list over waiting for an organ with less risk, according to...

Children who need heart transplants can spend months or years waiting for a suitable donor heart. Fortunately, the pediatric cardiology team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has a new strategy for shortening the...